Is the purpose of Wikileaks to restrict the basic freedoms of individuals you don't like ?

Having your name on this list carries with it the very real threat of losing your job and destroying your professional reputation while also placing your family and property at risk of physical assault from Left Wing extremists, the publishing of this list is a sinister ploy indeed.
This is not about the rights and wrongs of the BNP - it is about British democracy and whether we are actually prepared to stand up for the basic freedoms of those whose views disgust us.

That is EXACTLY what they were released for, and soon, a large number of people on this list will have their jobs lost, as I am now writing to the NHS and giving them the details of all the Doctors who appear on this list.

That is a very good idea. Since Britain has a famous shortage of publicly funded medical professionals, ill people wait aeons to get treatment. Many cannot afford to wait for fear of life or limb and travel to France or even eastern Europe for dentistry and sometimes serious surgery. Their money, which is considered mere pennies in Britain, is a godsent gift to the still extensive, but underfinanced medical system in Hungary and the neighbouring countries.

If more BNP-aligned doctors are sacked from the state payroll in Britain, more british patients will travel to eastern Europe and spend here! I also hope the sacked BNP doctors will find new medical careers in the southern USA or other proudly white place. it is a matter of fact that 99% of hard science Nobels are white and 2/3rd of them jews. Other human races are less intellectual. 1.0.22.53 19:40, 20 October 2009 (BST)

"Other human races are less intellectual"???? Less intellectual than who? Than you? I very much doubt it. I'd say there are inanimate objects who may not be less intellectual than you. I hope you burn to death.

You obviously haven't considered the fact that anyone with a PhD can be a Dr and not just medical doctors. Why write to the NHS about them? Petepad 20:35, 20 October 2009 (BST)

The "Peer" would seem to be Lord Bramall

Former CDS and recently in the news for a spat with Lord Janner over Israel and for suggesting that the campaign for better treatment for Gurkhas was sentimental.

Of course it could be mischief, or someone else.

MISTAKEN IDENTITY from @Morus1516 on Twitter

The "Lord Bramhall" is most certainly NOT Lord Edwin Bramall, who is a Field Marshall, sitting peer, Knight of the Garter and many other illustrious things.

The Lord Bramhall (notice the slightly different spelling) is on the BNP membership list registered to postcode ST1 4RB (which is in Stoke on Trent, believed to be a retirement home).

This is an ASCII version of a webpage which mentions "Lord Brian Bramhall" - not really a Lord, but he styles himself as the 10th Earl of Newbury. Lines 37 and 38 of that link give you both the name "Lord Brian Bramhall" and his postcode "ST1 4RB"

XLSB = Excel 2007 binary format

"As Excel Macro-enabled Workbook, but storing information in binary form rather than XML documents for opening and saving documents more quickly and efficiently. Intended especially for very large documents with tens of thousands of rows, and/or several hundreds of columns."

That all means nothing to me. Could somebody convert this to a text or PDF file for the technically incompetent anti-fascist, please.

It opens in the current version of OpenOffice.org, which is free software.

No it does not work with OOO. And for people who do not use the monopolistic redmond os aka window$ somebody should convert it to a better format than this proprietary m$ $§"". I would be very very thankful for it.

Looking right at it in OOo 3.1 at this very moment, works fine.

Yepp you're right. Took longer than expected for OOo to open the file but it works.

What the hell is up with this format? I'm still waiting for 3.1 to open it. Process is taking up 99% of total cpu usage btw.

It can be opened in older versions of Office if you download the "compatibility pack" from Microsoft. The pack also upgrades Excel Viewer 2003 to handle the new format. Compatibility pack for Office 2007 files can be downloaded here.

Yawn

Aren't you getting bored of uploading BNP membership lists?

Don't worry about it. Its good publicity for the BNP because it undermines the Tory/Labour Party propaganda which suggests we are all poorly educated thugs and shows that they are so desperate to suppress the truth that they will encourage harassment or even violence towards our supporters. Go for it lefties. Hope to speak to you soon. Alan Sugar xxx

Funny how the BNP supporters bang on about 'lefties' when their economic polices are far too the left of Labour. Just goes adds weight to the argument that BNP supporters are no more,no less than racists.

There’s no doubt it works in the BNP’s favor; how many members (or at least people receiving party materiel) have been added since last year, 100,000 was it? I’m not saying this is working to undermine the BNP, quite the contrary; it’s just a little old hat now.

No the 100,000 was added to the members no, it is not the number of new members just suggests that to the poorly educated thugs!Bold textas opposed to the well indoctrinated UAF student/dole scum thugs?Bold text

Retired Labour MP!!!!!

There a fucking retired Labour MP on there!

No there isn't. Read this page from the top.

Yes there is. He's not referring to Lord Bramall

XLSB?

Not everyone runs Windows, people. Of those that run Windows, not everyone has Office.
Why such a retarded format?

It is binary format making it easier to store/ transfer large databases.

You can use openoffice which is freeware to access the same information.

Microsoft Excel Viewer 2008 opens it almost instantly, yet Open Office 3.1 is still trying to open it after many minutes. Conclusion? xlsb IS a retarded format. csv would be far more suitable!

Can't download it

Nice work "LittleKev", you are aware your IP address and those of the other 12 seeds and 2 leechers can now be reported ?

I pity any UK citizen in that swarm. Breaching the UK Data Protection Act by downloading personal & private information is a lot more serious than ::irritating the RIAA by downloading a MP3 .

Use at you own risk (use Pirate Bay for Warez & MP3s only kids ;)

HOORAY FOR THE BNP

What possible interest would this be to a law abiding citizen? it is not in the public interest to have personal information strewn about the internet. If indeed we are a democracy we should all be entitled to have whatever political opinion we choose. I am NOT a member of the BNP but any party which is trying to hold back the flood gates from the millions pouring into our countrry, which is destabilising our way of life AND putting a strain on our infilstructure can only be a good thing surely?? where do i sign up?...

Not a BNP member, just a racist, fascist, scumbag obviously, said red communist turd.

Anyone that thinks the BNP will sort out Britain must be as retarded as the BNP's leadership bunch of twats in suits trying to look like a legitimate political party.Bold textbut rarely foul mouthed imbicilesBold text

Just seen the Griffin's statement 'IT'S A FAKE' - just seen the BNP website 'talking to lawyers in Britain and the US'
So it's a fake they are rying to take down????
Seems the 'left hand don't know what the (FAR) right hand is doing
Go figure! anyway. Think Griffin and co leaked it to get the 'oh look at us, we are victims' crowd going.
Cynically using their members for their own ends

There are more members of the Cheshire Cub Scout movement than the BNP. And they have more a clue.

It's a hoax !!

The so-called “new BNP membership list” published today on the Internet is a malicious forgery, party leader Nick Griffin has announced.

“We have had a chance to examine the list in detail and can unequivocally say that it is not a genuine BNP list,” Mr Griffin said.

“It is a concoction of the ‘old’ list plus a number of inquiries received, but, most disturbingly, it contains thousands of names of people with whom the BNP has had no contact whatsoever,” Mr Griffin said.

“The list includes thousands of people with renewal and membership numbers next to their names which are totally false and made up,” Mr Griffin said.

“We have no idea from where this information has been drawn. Some of it looks like random items drawn from a telephone book,” he said, adding that part of the list looked like information which was taken from the home of an ex-BNP employee by police during an earlier investigation.

Mr Griffin pointed out that the party had been the subject of extensive attacks by the state during the entire European election period.

“Overt that time, twenty sacks of mail disappeared in the post, and were only delivered six weeks after the election date after we threatened to call in the police,” Mr Griffin said.

The BNP leader said that the high degree of fraud used in compiling the list was a serious criminal offence. “In the interests of the totally unconnected people named in this list, we will not be confirming or denying any details contained in this new attempt to subvert the BNP.”

Mr Griffin also criticised the media for sensationalising the publication of this list.

“Government departments, including the ministry of defence, have time and time again lost sensitive data on laptops left in trains, or have thrown lists into skips for cleaners to find. Recently, the entire Royal Air Force payroll was up for grabs on the Internet.

“These events are sidelined with a cursory reference in the media. Yet, when we, as a legal political party have our data stolen, the media makes a circus of it. It is hypocritical in the extreme,” Mr Griffin said.

I can convert it

...but how do I upload it to the site? And will i be able to be traced?

It's a forgery for sure. I rejoined the BNP since the Matt Single leak and my name is not on this list. I joined in April 2008 and renewed in April this year, yet no sign of my name or any other details, anywhere on that spreadsheet.

Agreed, forgery !!

I joined the BNP in July 2008, and renewed this year, I'm not listed either.

I'm a member of the BNP and I'm not on this list nor the old list. Nick Griffin today said that the list is a forgery.

“It is a concoction of the ‘old’ list plus a number of inquiries received,” Mr Griffin said. “But, most disturbingly, it contains thousands of names of people with whom the BNP has had no contact whatsoever.

A fake

I'm a member and have been for two years, but have never been on either of the two lists! This is really annoying as I WANT to be on the list!! :-)

Patriot

Why isn't my family listed? We joined up just after the previous list was published and renewed etc, we are current members. We are good patriots and I'm a serving soldier and told them when I joined. Why did they leave us off the list? Perhaps the person who stole it didn't want to be accused of putting military families in the line of danger from terrorists?

The new McCarthyism

This has helped me decide to join the BNP.

This is not new, this is "oldschool" antifa style...

BNP member

Lol I tried to find my name on the list but I couldn't even find N. Griffin there...This is pathetic...

Griffin says it's a'fake'

The BNPwebsite says that they are talking to lawyers in the UK ans USA

looks like the left hand don't know what the FAR right hand is doing here

teh he he :-)

Griffin says it's a'fake'

The BNPwebsite says that they are talking to lawyers in the UK and USA

looks like the left hand don't know what the FAR right hand is doing here

teh he he :-) must have money to burn (NOT)

Love it when the racists get their knickers in a twist.
Next they'll claim the video of the racist indoctrination of a 12 year old girl on the news of the World website, by two of their council candidates, was also a fake.
Why didn't they sue - get pots of cash - they didn't simply because it was true

On the list...but not a member

Just as I was last time!

Have some people nothing better to do than publish rubbish?

Worse still, have idiot 'anti-fascists' got nothing
better to do than ring the house and scare the kids, just like they did last time?

I have no connection with the BNP or any other political party for that matter, but this doesn't seem to deter the idiots from calling the house. I notice they don't have the guts to leave their number!

I rang the BNP and they confirm they have no record of me. At least they had the decency to apologise for something that they appear not to be responsible for. Someone needs to be made accountable for this. And to the idiots who keep ringing, for gods sake, GROW UP

Thank you for helping our Government to stifle Free Speech in the UK.

Oh, that's how it is, is it? I have to join the BNP to support free speech now? Listen, I'm a busy hard-working bloke with a family, I don't have time for ANY political party, nor do I have time for prats phoning the house hurling abuse and threats over something I'm not responsible for. By all means beat each other to death over your politcal differences, but keep me out of it. If I ever found out who put my name on this list they're in deep trouble. Anyone have any ideas how to have my details removed?

Go on then, put your names

A couple of people have commented that they are proud BNP members but not on the list. One even says that they wish they were. If this is true, why don't they put their details here and enjoy their proud, out, racist status.

Are you stupid or just pretending? If I put my details here I am not protected by the law in case me and my relatives are being harassed or sacked by idiots like you. Remember - possession and use of this list, either in its original format or in the new extrapolated format, is contrary to the provisions of the Data Protection Act (DPA)! Nice try communist scum

Any of you heard of Redwatch? Nothing different about this really....

THE LIST IS RUBBISH - JUST ANOTHER PART OF THE UNDERHAND GAME BEING PLAYED BY AN UNDERHAND ESTABLISHMENTThis list is rubbish. Just something made up to add to the media furore which is being created in advance of Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time. I'm a member and my name's not on there. All this media outpouring against the BNP only goes to prove that the exisiting Establishment is exactly what the BNP accuses it of being!
ONE SHOULD NOT BE CONWARDLY ABOUT ONE'S BELIEFS. IF YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THE BNP THEN YOU SHOULD ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS. UNLESS, OF COURSE, YOU ARE SECRETLY ASHAMED OF YOUR PARTY'S IDEOLOGY, WHICH IS FAIR ENOUGH CONSIDERING THE BNP HAS EXTREMELY VILE POLICIES.

Back of a envelope calculations

1% of BNP members are overseas....going over there, taking foreigners jobs

15% are on some kind of family membership, which means presumably that at least some of these people probably aren't even BNP voters but are related to them in some way.

This is basically ill-judged and immoral

I'm usually a big fan of Wikileaks - and I'm certainly no fan of the BNP - but to my mind the decision to publish this list really brings the site's credibility into question. There is at least reasonable doubt over the authenticity of the list, and some suggestion that it may contain randomly-inserted names. In other words, people who have no connection with the BNP but may now get a seriously hard time from friends, neighbours and anti-fascist activists. I appreciate the resources of Wikileaks are limited, and I wouldn't disagree with the publication of an indisputably genuine list - nobody should be ashamed of their political affiliations. But this particular list should have been checked out much more thoroughly before being made available. A bad day for Wikileaks.

Well, there's something sinister going on here, I was on the first list and I'm on this one, I moved house inbetween them and my details appear to have been updated. I'm no fan of the BNP either, but they confirmed they have no record of me. This list is not just inaccurate, it's deliberate and malicious!

--- Parts of it are certainly fake. I received a strange (threatening?) phone call which led me to check this list. Lo and behold my name and some details are on it. Wonderful, only not being indigenously white or whatever I'm not even allowed membership by their constitution!

Duplicates
Some names on here are duplicates, they appear twice or even three times and all the details are the same. Is this the british nazi party's attempt to boost their membership and make them appear to be a credible party with significant following? It'll never happen. HOPE NOT HATE

This is undemocratic

Wikileaks likes to see itself as a beacon of democracy. Certainly at times it is and should be applauded and supported.

In this instance, however, wikileaks has acted undemocratically, for a central pillar of representative democracy is the ability to vote secretly. Thus, it follows that the right to retain anonymity with regard to party membership is also a fundamental pillar of democracy. Saying that, the BNP are odious.

No, it doesn't follow that being permitted to be a member of a political party anonymously is a concomitant of the secret ballot. Sorry.

Re: secrecy

You don't say why that is. You don't explain your argument; you provide no argument which is so typical of people nowadays.

Don't you see that if I am a member of a political party and don't have the right to anonymity, then the state or other actors will be able to assume who I vote for at the ballot box -- it's likely that I'll vote for the party I am a member of. Thus, by not being anonymous in political affiliation I don't have recourse to a secret ballot. Under an oppressive regime this could be dire. Though it could be argued that Britain is oppressive and that in Britain there is no such thing as a secret ballot as the ballot papers are individually numbered. It would be easy for the state to put names to votes.

Who cares anyway?

Whether I am on this or not, I don't give a shit. I gave up trying to open it in the end, too many geeks with nothing better to do I guess.

Multiple Entries

There appear to be a large number of multiple entries on this list. I would estimate the total number of unique identities to be no more than 6000.

Racism

Remember, people, we are ALL Africans!

When will wikileaks publish the names, addresses and phone numbers of political opponents and dissidents in China, Russia, Burma, Iran, Cuba, Egypt, Zimbabwe etc. ?

When will wikileaks publish the names, addresses and phone numbers of political opponents and dissidents in China, Russia, Burma, Iran, Cuba, Egypt, Zimbabwe etc. ?

In what way would doing so be any different morally or ethically or legally, from the publication and promotion to the mainstream media of these alleged BNP lists ?

You may rightly consider the leadership of the British National Party to be scum, but what are you doing to protect the innocent, law abiding ordinary members and their families, whose details appear on those lists or alleged lists ?

Oh are they really innocent?????

Then again - law abiding members of the BNP? Now there's a minority for you! What? Law abiding?????

Self righteous hypocrites -Yes possibly.

Those who put the lists up, those who oppose the party and those that don't like the truth to be told are the real Fascists!... you bunch of self righteous tossers, you think you stand high and mighty because you are not a member of the BNP but I wonder how often you share the views of them and how clean is your conscious in general...? How may of you are wife beaters, kiddy fiddlers, thiefs, benefit scroungers, Racists??! yes racist Ethnic Majorities use racism to their own gain on many occasion, it is what has brought the country to its knees because self righteous liberals like you get a kick out of ruining the good in this world...
WHICH TRUTHS? TALKING ABOUT WIFE BEATERS: SOME OF YOUR MEMBERS ( OR EX-CONVICTS) ARE DEFINITELY WIFE BEATERS.

If you drive a car you have no right to complain about green house gases, if you wear leather shoes you have no right to complain about animal welfare and if you sit back and attempt to ban freedom of speech you are a fascist.
SOME TRUTH IN WHAT YOU ARE SAYING BUT IT IS MISUSED IN THIS VILE CONTEXT.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it you bunch of blinkered idiots.
BLINKERED EH? THAT'S RICH COMING FROM THE MOST BLINKERED PARTY IN BRITAIN!
AI think all those who openly oppose the BNP should be made to live in Southall.
HEY, THAT'S A BETTER IDEA THAN LIVING IN SOME OF THE NASTY SLUMS YOUR LOT LIVE IN!
Well it gives the hoards of the great unwashed cunts a thrill doesn't it. :)
OH DEAR! HOW CAN DECENT MEMBERS OF THE BNP LIKE YOURSELF USE SUCH INDECENT LANGUAGE? IS THAT HOW YOU COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER AT MEETINGS?

Update for Roy Jones BNP activist

Update for Roy Jones BNP activist

R ARGUEING ON..WHITE,BLACK,BRWN?..FOR GOD SAKE THINK DIS WAY WE R LIVING ON EARTH N WE R HUMAN BEING..DIS IS OUR WORLD ND WE CAN MOVE ANY WHERE WE DEMAND 2 MOVE...STOP POLITICS ND THINK THIS ONCE WON'T UR TEARS FALL FROM UR EYES IF U SEE A HUMAN BEING DIEYING..WILL U NOT HELP HIM IF HE IS NOT WHITE?

NICK GRIFFIN is to be investigated by the privacy watchdog after the BNP leader was accused of paying for a database containing the names and addresses of thousands of members of a rival party.

The database, which belonged to the UK Independence party and contained the details of about 3,500 of its members from London and the southeast, was passed to the British National party by a disaffected member in return for about £500, sources say.

The BNP then canvassed many of the people on the UKIP list asking for funds to help fight its campaign in the run-up to June’s European elections. The BNP went on to claim two seats, including one for Griffin.

Last night the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which oversees data protection, said it would investigate. Under the terms of the Data Protection Act, anyone who sells data without authorisation from the designated “data controller” is guilty of an offence, as is the person who obtains it.

[...]

vile language from non BNP members

It is a great shame that the language used by certain non BNP members, in particular, is sordid. Could this be due to a severe shortage of vocabulary? Or is it just bad breeding?
There are excellent ways of expressing yourself in the great Engish language without resorting to filth. Try it. You might improve the contents of your brain with it.

Unsurprising that the BNP would do such a thing as stealing members list from UKIP. What else can a defunct party do? Especially when they even have to double up their own members list to flesh it out.

Hello

Hi i want to be a member of bnp..but the problem is im not white and im not british..can i be a member of the british national party..?many thanks

becoming a non-white BNP member??

In answer to your question. Perhaps you could phone the BNP yourself and ask them what they think. Interesting to find out what they say.
But why do you, as a non-white, wish to join a rabidly racist party.?

Racism is such an old hackneyed leftist term of abuse.
I am not a member of the BNP, but anyone with one eye can see this country is full to the rafters with people willing to work for £5 an hour, which may be where the next hackneyed cliché comes from... "Taking our jobs"...Look at the Royal mail and their last attempt to get fair working conditions...blown apart by agency scabs.
As long as there are people arriving in this country willing to accept deplorable wages, then ancestral Brits will continue to be abused by vested interests and cabals.
Any internationalist socialist who supports these cabals is a victim of ultra left indoctrination in the state sector schools of our land, or simply a Trotzkyist cynic.
^^^^
reply to this rubbish.

plain and simple mate, our economy is made up of immigrant workers and shifty upper class bankers, without them we would collapse, like it or not.

Breaking Data Procetion ?

I would have thought holding all these peoples names, address and phone numbers is illegal ?